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Aurelia found that the family seat, whither she was marshalled by Mrs Aylward, was already occupied by two ladies, who rose up, and usted air, although there was aes whom she had ventured to take with her They wore the black hoods, laced boddices, long rolls of towering curl and open upper skirts, of Queen Anne's day, and in the eyes of thirty years' later, looked so ridiculous that Fay could not but stare at thelances fro herself, the big blue considering eyes were always levelled full upon the two for with their dress, thin, stiff and angular, orn and lined faces, highly rouged, and enor-handled fans, and Aurelia was almost as ain, and et out of the pew, and the two ladies mounted at the door on lofty pattens which added considerably to their height, and, attended by a loutish-looking man in livery, who carried their books, stalked of into the village

Aurelia found from the communicative Molly that they were Mistress Phoebe and Mistress Delia Treforth, kinswomen of the Belamour family, who had in consequence a life residence rent-free in a tall thin red square house near the churchyard, where a very gay parrot was always to be seen in the s They no doubt regarded Miss Delavie and the little Waylands as interlopers at Bowstead, and their withering glancesaffair--indeed the first time that Aurelia took little A fit, so that she had to be carried out, begging to knohy those ladies looked so cross at her

The life, on the whole, was not unhappy, except for fits of ho for letters The arrival of the boxes from the carrier was the first comfort, and then at last cae Herries, and containing letters froene

Her father wrote at length all the excellent ious essay which had stuck in his throat at the parting; neither was Betty's letter deficient in good advice, though she let it appear that the family were hters, the secret having been hitherto so carefully kept that they supposed her to have only one